Obermeyer News from Aspen, Colorado

The Boyfriend Jacket

On all stylists’ top trends list this season is ‘the boyfriend piece’. The boyfriend jacket, the boyfriend sweater, the boyfriend jean. I don’t have a boyfriend. I havn’t even had a date in three years. I’m not really looking to fulfill that area of my life from Saks or Topshop.

On my recent trip to NYC, I did tons of ‘retail therapy‘….enough to fully make up for my lack of ‘couples therapy’. Display on one shop window was a sign claiming ‘boyfriend friendly’. I did enter the store with the intent of finding out what ‘boyfriend friendly’ meant. My curiosity was kicked to the curb. Not one bit of friendly, nor one item that looked like the highly pushed ‘boyfriend piece’.

Regardless, I’d just like to say: back in the day, we ripped in boyfriend jackets, and pants, and long underwear. It smelled bad, didn’t fit, and was available in those great boyfriend colors: mustard, ketchup, and forest green. We rode anyway because it was fun, and that’s fashion.

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Founded in 1947 in Aspen, Colorado Sport Obermeyer was born of necessity by Klaus Obermeyer. As an Aspen ski instructor, he became aware of the need to keep his ski school students warm and dry so they would enjoy the sport of skiing and become repeat customers. Klaus Obermeyer, as ski pioneer  learned environmental stewardship at a young age respecting the alpine environment and its majestic beauty. Today, Obermeyer continues to design and produce innovative and technically responsible authentic skiwear from the heart of the Rocky mountains.

To watch Klaus ski is to witness his true love of the sport. It all began in 1919, in Oberstaufen, Germany, the small Bavarian alpine village in which Klaus was born. There, his passion began at the early age of three. In 1947, Klaus arrived in Aspen, Colorado, where he followed his entrepreneurial spirit. Sensing that people would spend more time on the slopes if they had great looking ski clothes that kept them warm, dry, and comfortable. He set up shop, the original Sport Obermeyer, in the attic of his home. There, one of the first of countless innovations was born in the form of a down ski parka stitched together from his goose down comforter. Innovations continue to motivate Klaus and the company he started — his enthusiasm is contagious, his energy seemingly endless, and his optimism boundless.

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